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Re: 2 motor drive VS 4 motor drive

We ran single CIM drives in 2006 and 2007.

From my experience with driving them, they were always grossly under-powered and rarely fast enough to catch another team while playing defense. If you run calculations on the drives you'll see that the math will agree with this. By the time you've geared a single CIM drive down enough to ensure proper loading on the motor, it won't be fast enough to catch much of anything.

IMO, running a single CIM drive in most games, Lunacy being the exception, is a good way to handicap yourself in competition.
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